英语词汇make a long story short的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	make a long story short
词源	make a long story short; short and sweet. One would think the common advice make a long story short would be prover- bial, but it is first found in print in Robert Bagot’s novel Pass- port (1905). On the other hand, short and sweet, “brief and pleasant,” is proverbial, one writer in 1539 calling it “an En- glish proverb.”
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